Global Markets: Shares rose at the beginning of a "busy" week, the dollar declined

Global Markets: Shares rose at the beginning of a "busy" week, the dollar declined

The US has made modest increases at the beginning of a week, with index futures contracts and potentially important catalysts such as European stocks, central bank meetings, geopolitical developments and economic data. US Treasury bonds and the dollar declined slightly.

While Standard & Poor's 500 (S & P 500) and Nasdaq index futures move upwards, the Dow Jones futures report that the US Department of Transportation's 737 Max's design certificate will be reviewed by Boeing Co. shares in the pre-opening transaction with the decline fell. European equities, mining companies and Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG have been promoted under the leadership of bank shares, which found support after the green light for merger talks. In Asia, China and Hong Kong shares pioneered the rise. The pound fell after British Prime Minister Theresa May continued to confront the opposition for the Brexit plan.

Stocks are rising with expectations that the Fed may point to an interest rate increase in 2019, while volatility declines. A number of central banks, including the Bank of England, could signal monetary policy this week. On the political front, investors' attention will be transformed into developments on this issue, along with the British Prime Minister's call for support for the Brexit agreement.

AMP Capital Investors Ltd. "The stock markets moved quite sharply and rapidly at the December levels, but with the fact that global economic data is still soft, shares are sensitive to short-term withdrawals," said Shane Oliver, investment strategy manager. In the whole year 2019, profits should be supported by policy incentives.

On the other hand, oil has started to realize the highest close of four months with OPEC and its partners proposing to postpone the decision to prolong production cuts until June. Emerging market currencies and stocks rose.

Important events to be followed in the market;

* Some major companies, including FedEx, China Telecom, Tencent, Porsche, BMW, Hermes, Tiffany, Micron, Nike and PetroChina, will announce their profits.
* Fed's meeting this week, interest rates are not going to change, the balance sheet narrowing program and announced that this year's interest rate cuts are expected to reduce projections. The decision will be announced on Wednesday.
* Central banks of Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia will hold policy meetings.
* In the Eurozone, the data of the purchasing managers index, which will be announced on Friday, will signal the status of industry and services sectors at the end of the first quarter of the region.

Stocks

* The Stoxx Europe 600 Index was up 0.1 percent above the New York time at 08:02.
* S & P 500 index futures contracts rose 0.1 percent.
* In the UK, the FTSE 100 Index climbed 0.6 percent.
* In Germany, the DAX Index realized the biggest drop of more than a week with 0.3 percent.
* The MSCI Emerging Market Index climbed to the top of the seven-month high with a 1 percent rise to one-week high.
* MSCI Asia Pacific Index climbed 0.9 percent to the peak of three weeks.

Currencies

* Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.1 percent to a two-week low.
* Euro rose by 0.3 percent against the dollar, climbing to 1.1356, the highest level of over two weeks.
* Sterling fell 0.2 percent against the dollar fell to 1.3263 level.
* Japanese currency fell 0.1 percent to 1.3263 against the dollar.

Bonds

* The US 10-year bond yields rose by 2 basis points to 2.61 percent year-on-year.
* Germany's 10-year bond yields climbed by 2 basis points to 0.10 percent, the highest level for more than a week.
* England's 10-year bond yields rose slightly from a base to 1.214.
* Italy's 10-year bonds with the interest rate of five basis points to more than a week, the biggest decrease of the lowest level of 2.445 percent of the last 10 months.

Commodity

* Western Texas oil (WTI) rose 0.1 percent to $ 58.55 a barrel.
* Gold rose 0.2 percent to $ 1,305.18 an ounce.